Eric Cole's Recaps Fluctuating FedEx Cup Standings at St. Jude

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00:00You make a birdie on 8 to go from 54th inside to 48th, right?

00:12So you're 50th when you make par at 10, but by the time you get to the 11th tee and put

00:16a tee in the ground, you're back to 52nd.

00:19You're on the outside.

00:20And birdie at 13, you go 52nd to 47th.

00:24Birdie at 15, go 48 to 44.

00:28And birdie at 16 to go 45th to 38, so sitting comfortably inside.

00:33How do we feel after the bogey at 18 to go from 41st to 48th?

00:37Yeah, I mean, I didn't know a lot of that stuff going on.

00:40You know, there's some leaderboards out there and there's some projections that come out.

00:43But like when you're playing, you don't see really anywhere near that type of volatility.

00:50So I obviously knew that I was doing good stuff.

00:54I was making birdies.

00:55And every time I looked at it, it seemed to be getting a little better.

00:59And then, you know, bogeying 18 wasn't what I had in mind.

01:03But with the tee shot, I think I did well to do that.

01:06It was a good bogey.

01:07If you didn't get a chance to watch Eric on the 18th hole, you get on on the tee.

01:11And we set it up as because I was on the ground.

01:14I'm listening to the guys in the booth like really just anything out to the right.

01:18He's going to be able to coast through.

01:20And next thing you know, I hear, oh, my gosh, he pulled it.

01:22So what's going through your brain when the ball comes off the face and you realize I'm

01:27going to have to fight maybe a little harder than I was hoping to?

01:31Yeah, I didn't want to bail out to the right.

01:35You know, those bunkers aren't real great.

01:37And, you know, right.

01:38It's not it's better than the water, but it's not a real great spot to be.

01:40So I was trying to kind of take a strong line as I could and, you know, just hit it off

01:46the toe and kind of immediately knew that it was going in the water.

01:50So and it didn't cross or anything like that.

01:52So, you know, it wasn't wasn't what I was hoping to look up for on that 18th day.

01:58But then, you know, after that, it was actually a lot of decision making with my caddy.

02:04Like, yeah, you know, be aggressive with the next one.

02:06That's where the drop.

02:07Right.

02:08Yeah.

02:09You can go.

02:10I could have gone back 40 yards back and hook like maybe a five wood or four iron even.

02:15Yeah.

02:16So, you know, that was an option.

02:18But, you know, I don't think I could have ever gotten it on the green.

02:21So without being able to get it on the green, it just seemed like a huge risk for not not

02:27enough upside.

02:28So I decided to lay it up and, you know, hit a decent wedge in there that went a little

02:31further than I thought and then made that putt.

02:33So, I mean, the putt was fantastic.

02:35You walked it in like so nonchalantly, making a 15 footer to make to the BMW.

02:40And we all talked about this the entire year, how important it is to get inside the top

02:4450.

02:45You can plan your entire schedule next year based on those signature events.

02:50First off, congratulations there.

02:52And last question as it pertains to yesterday.

02:55When you're on the 18th tee, did you or your caddie know exactly where you stood and did

03:01you ask for any clarification why you're on the hole on what you may have needed to do?

03:05But there's so much that could have happened, right?

03:07Yeah.

03:08I mean, like you said earlier, I teed off so early.

03:10There's so much movement that other guys can, you know, influence where I stand.

03:15So I didn't really talk about where I was or anything like that on the tee.

03:20But then once I hit in the water, I was kind of asking like my caddie read.

03:23I was like, you know, if I if I make a bogey, do you think that's good or, you know, kind

03:29of like, well, it made a huge difference with how aggressive I had to be with that second

03:32shot, you know, if he or third shot, I guess, after dropping.

03:36But, you know, if he thought I had to make a par, then, you know, it's a completely different

03:40story.

03:41You just never know what.

03:42Yeah.

03:43He was like, you know, if you make bogey, you should be good.

03:44So that's kind of the only time we really talked about it.

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